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Invalid Characters in MainActivity.smali File

Open AryanVBW opened this issue 7 months ago • 0 comments

Description

The MainActivity.smali file contains invalid backtick (`) characters that cause parsing errors during the APK build process.

Current Behavior

When building the APK, the following error occurs:

app/factory/decompiled/smali/com/etechd/l3mon/MainActivity.smali[743,0] Error for input '`': Invalid text
app/factory/decompiled/smali/com/etechd/l3mon/MainActivity.smali[743,1] Error for input '`': Invalid text
app/factory/decompiled/smali/com/etechd/l3mon/MainActivity.smali[743,2] Error for input '`': Invalid text
Could not smali file: com/etechd/l3mon/MainActivity.smali

Expected Behavior

The MainActivity.smali file should contain valid syntax without unsupported characters.

Reproduction Steps

  1. Examine the MainActivity.smali file in the decompiled directory
  2. Notice the presence of backtick characters (```) around line 743
  3. Attempt to build the APK

Proposed Fix

Create a script to automatically clean the smali files of invalid characters:

#!/bin/bash
DECOMPILED_DIR="/path/to/decompiled"

# Fix syntax issues in MainActivity.smali
MAIN_ACTIVITY_PATH="$DECOMPILED_DIR/smali/com/etechd/l3mon/MainActivity.smali"
if [ -f "$MAIN_ACTIVITY_PATH" ]; then
    # Replace backtick characters with valid ones (single quotes)
    sed -i '' 's/```//g' "$MAIN_ACTIVITY_PATH"
    sed -i '' "s/\`/'/g" "$MAIN_ACTIVITY_PATH"
fi

Additional Context

These invalid characters might be introduced during the decompilation process or as a result of code comments in the original source.

AryanVBW avatar Apr 06 '25 03:04 AryanVBW